This week I have put out half a dozen huge proposals. Should be enough to keep me busy for six months if it all comes through. We’ll see!

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Had a nice win today. My client, Jon P. of Candy Favorites, called me today to let me know that the SEO work we did late in 2003 and early in 2004 is finally paying off at Google. The site now ranks #1 at Google for many of his key word phrases, such as “online candy store”, “Brach’s candy” and so on. He’s elated, and it made my day too! This is a huge site with over 2600 pages, which went live in January 2004 and has had a PageRank of 5 for the last couple of months, but …

Finished the re-design of this site: Mediations Handled. Starting in on a bunch of re-design work on another site: Free Spirit Art, by taking it out of tables and putting it into CSS, and using PHP and MySQL for keeping track of the images. So it will be easier to maintain this site once we have finished – and the owner will be able to easily add more animal art prints when I am done. When I originally designed this site, it was only supposed to have about 100 prints in it so I put them all in …

After much burning of midnight oil, I have finished moving the 150 sites. What a project!

Still working on redesigning this site: MediationsHandled.com, which was truly in need of a re-design. Should have that one finished this weekend, then will be working on this one: http://www.freespiritart.com.

On the home front, a friend in Portland (bless him!) found a free hot tub for us, and I drove up (5 hours each way) to pick it up. Had to get the pump working, and had to plug a leak, but it is working now and we have done some excellent …